Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

It's an American tradition, on our Independence Day, to read aloud the Declaration of Independence-- in part, a recollection of the way it was originally communicated to the people, via town criers who brought the document from city to city to read it out loud in the town square.

For public speakers, reading the Declaration aloud isn't just a nice way to honor the holiday. Reading any famous and familiar text aloud is a great way to practice how you vocalize. The familiarity of the text lets you focus on pronunciation, inflection, pauses and other ways of emphasizing particular words.